Hospital 444
Chapter 169 - 18: Escape

Chapter 169: Chapter 18: Escape

After fully regaining consciousness, Dai Lin and Gao Heyann had a complete recollection...

The goat that the village head had led out earlier, whose fate they had decided...

Was none other than Wei Zhengxian, stark naked, on all fours on the ground, with a face deathly pale!

Though Dai Lin and Gao Heyann had never seen Wei Zhengxian, he really did look like Huang Ayuan, who bore the appearance of Wei Zhengkang! One glance, and they knew for certain that he must be Wei Zhengxian!

So... where was Gu Yanan? Where was she?

"Search! Find those two people!"

"Blasphemers of the Ancestral Mother!"

Suddenly, Dai Lin and Gao Heyann heard the chaotic voices of people around them!

"This is bad!"

Dai Lin immediately realized that the villagers had started to look for them!

Dai Lin, supporting Gao Heyann, intended to leave!

They couldn’t teleport away instantly... and their calls to the hospital for an ambulance were unsuccessful...

Were these villagers human or ghosts?

How could they possibly escape?

That said, Dai Lin thought, the Devil’s Eye could still, to a certain extent, be immune to the spiritual contamination curse brought by the Ancestral Mother’s black blood! Clearly, it was because Dai Lin was still too weak to further develop the eye’s abilities!

Could the Devil’s Eye itself also make others suffer such spiritual contamination? For example, making people see humans as goats?

Suddenly, a man wielding a stick charged towards Dai Lin and Gao Heyann!

Dai Lin immediately said, "I’ll handle him!"

However, the villager, upon seeing them, had no reaction at all and shouted to the other side, "They aren’t here!"

"Damn, where did they run off to? Once we find them, tie them up and send them to the Ancestral Mother Cave!"

Dai Lin and Gao Heyann were stunned.

What... what is going on?

Gao Heyann baffled, asked, "Why, why is he covering for us? Did his conscience kick in?"

"No..."

Dai Lin shook his head and said, "He truly didn’t see us just now, not even the slightest change in his expression!"

Even in the darkness, Dai Lin could still clearly see every fine line on a person’s face! That villager’s expression had not even the slightest change!

He genuinely... didn’t see them!

"It’s my eyes..." Dai Lin realized, "Under the curse of the Ancestral Mother’s black blood, a new ability has awakened! I can influence other people’s mental perception!"

"Like... Tang Li?"

"Seems so."

This ability likely wasn’t invisibility, but rather a kind of mental control. If it were just invisibility, then the villager should have been able to hear Dai Lin speaking.

"If Ouyang Rui had had such an ability..." Dai Lin suddenly thought of a horrifying possibility, "then could it be possible that he unwittingly altered the self-perception of the doctors in the hospital?"

"I actually have a deeper suspicion," Gao Heyann said, staring intently into Dai Lin’s eyes, "perhaps part of my sister’s soul was absorbed by these eyes back then! If you can continuously control these eyes, maybe you can return the devoured soul to my sister’s body!"

Following that, Dai Lin and Gao Heyann indeed found that even though they walked around the village conspicuously, none of the searching people noticed them.

Now...

In Dai Lin’s eyes, the goats in the pen were clearly humans, stark naked!

Suddenly, Dai Lin saw...

Gu Yanan, on all fours, lying in one of the pens!

At that moment, a middle-aged man came out of the house and approached the pen where she lay.

"All right, after I feed you, I’ll join the others in searching for those two blasphemers of the Ancestral Mother!"

Then, the middle-aged man rolled up his sleeves, revealing... a horrific arm!

Many parts of the arm were deeply indented with severe scars, looking as if chunks of flesh had been directly chopped off?

At this moment, he extended his arm into the pen.

"Come... eat... this is top-quality fodder!"

Gu Yanan approached the man, opened her mouth, and viciously bit down on his arm!

A large chunk of flesh was torn off by the "goat" and then began to be chewed!

"Eat quickly..." The middle-aged man stroked Gu Yanan’s head, saying, "You need to grow up fast, so I can offer you as a sacrifice to the Ancestral Mother. Only with the Ancestral Mother can our village, cursed with children of extreme ugliness, be saved! Previously, you would only eat my fodder, which is why the village head assigned you to me."

Only then did Dai Lin understand how the village head determined eligibility for becoming a caretaker inside the cave!

"In Wei Zhengxian and the others’ eyes before, were they feeding goats with fodder...?"

Dai Lin just felt sick.

Last night, it was so close, so very close... he could have eaten Gao Heyann!

And he nearly became a "goat" himself!

It was clear that Gu Yanan was already dead.

There would be no way for her to change back now.

The moment she arrived at the hospital, she was already a dead person!

"What’s the situation with the village head now?"

"The village head is alright, I heard he barely survived an attack by those two people!"

Hearing this, Dai Lin and Gao Heyann were horrified.

What??? The village head...

Didn’t die?

"That’s an A-level Scalpel!" Gao Heyann gasped, "At my current level, I don’t even have the privilege to touch this scalpel during surgery! I still have to return it to the hospital..."

Dai Lin immediately realized, "The village chief himself is nothing. The terrifying thing... is that Ancestral Mother!"

The two of them now had only one choice: to escape the village.

That black blood ancestress was clearly beyond their ability to deal with.

"No wonder Doctor Qin died..."

Only now did they understand that the old man with the donkey who had warned Gu Yanan and Wei Zhengxian was none other than Doctor Qin Lie!

"Doctor Qin was a rural person... Although he had earned enough Spiritual Therapy Points, he seldom exchanged them for money. He always lived in his rustic family home with his donkey, saying that he was old and that as long as he had enough money to spend, he didn’t want to use the Spiritual Therapy Points to extend his life. That’s because he believed the Spiritual Therapy Points obtained by seizing the future of the patients were inherently filled with sin."

Recalling words once told by his sister Gao Menghua, Gao Heyann felt a sourness in his nose.

"I’m afraid that even in death, Doctor Qin is still cursed by the black blood ancestress. He couldn’t save those handsome men and beautiful women lured into the village by the ancestress’s curse. So the only thing he could do was to warn them, not to let the ancestress affect their minds."

Gao Heyann knew that they couldn’t hope for the ghost of the doctor to save them.

Their hope was incredibly slim; they could only try to escape from the village. If they couldn’t make it out... then despair was all that awaited them.

Dai Lin and Gao Heyann ran wildly toward the outskirts of the village, charging into a lush jungle.

Although they held onto hope, as time passed, both of them began to realize that it was indeed unrealistic to think of escaping from Mozhao Village.

When they came out of the jungle, what appeared before their eyes was Mozhao Village itself!

Back again!

Was it really so?

Dai Lin looked back at the jungle and wondered how Gu Yanan had been able to make a call for an ambulance.

Could it be that there were periods when the curse was weaker? During certain intervals, was it possible to call an ambulance to this place?

"What do we do now?"

Dai Lin and Gao Heyann looked at each other in dismay.

This was the worst scenario they had anticipated.

Was there any other way to escape?

Dai Lin took out his phone and tried calling the hospital once more.

If Gu Yanan could escape to the hospital...

They could too!

"At that time... Gu Yanan was already dead," Gao Heyann suddenly said. "Could it be that she was able to escape and reach the hospital because she had become a ’goat’?"

Hearing this, Dai Lin felt stars exploding before his eyes.

"That’s right. You won’t be able to escape," a voice came from behind them!

Dai Lin and Gao Heyann swiftly turned around.

Standing behind them was the village chief Mozhao!

He could see them!

"You..." Seeing the village chief, resurrected, Dai Lin didn’t know how to fight back.

"Become a sacrifice for the Ancestral Mother," the village chief approached them step by step, "only by doing this can you survive."

Dai Lin was out of options.

"If only I hadn’t used the opportunity for ’receiving flesh’ at the Gao family villa last time... Can we really only receive flesh once?"

"Anyone can only receive flesh once, or choose to forsake the bestowed flesh."

"What does forsaking the bestowed flesh mean?"

"To put it simply..." Gao Heyann said, his expression changing as he looked at the village chief.

"Dai Lin... between Jin Yunran and the black blood ancestress, which do you think is scarier?"

"That would definitely be the black blood ancestress!"

"Okay, then..."

Gao Heyann suddenly took out the surgical scalpel and then swiftly lifted the back of Dai Lin’s shirt!

"Don’t move!"

On Dai Lin’s back was a red mark roughly the size of a coin.

This piece of flesh...

was the Cursed Flesh!

After acquiring flesh through the Cursed Flesh, a red mark would randomly appear on some part of the body. The most common locations were the limbs, the back, and the spinal area!

Only a surgical scalpel from the hospital could remove the Cursed Flesh!

She gripped Dai Lin tightly and said, "There’s no way to give you anesthesia now, brace yourself..."

Then, she cut down fiercely with the scalpel!

Seeing this, the village chief’s eyes instantly turned pitch black, and he howled furiously, pouncing at them!

But alas, he was a step too late...

...

When Dai Lin regained consciousness, he found himself in a pitch-dark room.

The pain in his back was slowly fading.

Gasping for air, Gao Heyann clutched his arm, looking around.

"We’re back... After cutting off the Cursed Flesh, you have returned here."

This was... the Gao family villa!

Jin Yunran was still lingering in this haunted house!

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